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Parental investment and offspring sex ratios in house sparrows, Passer domesticus and cattle egrets, Bubulcus ibis.
(1998)
Fisher (1930) argued that parents should invest equally in the two sexes. Since then, others have proposed conditions under which parents might be selected to bias their investment in favor of either sons or daughters. I ...
Crustacean hormone nuclear receptors: Characterization, gene expression, and evolution.
(1998)
Ecdysteroids are the arthropod molting hormones that control molting and limb regeneration in crustaceans. The actions of ecdysteroids are mediated through their nuclear receptor, ecdysteroid receptor (EcR). Studies in ...
Community ecology of water-filled tree holes in Panama.
(1999)
Water-filled tree holes are phytotelmata formed when rain collects in branch crotches and other wood-lined cavities. Repeated surveys of natural and artificial water-filled tree holes on Barro Colorado Island (BCI), Panama, ...
Environmental constraints regulating the distribution and abundance of small mammals.
(1999)
I computed 15 landscape variables at four different scales (40 variables total). Cluster analysis of these weighted data produced three multispecies clusters based on associations of species distributions and abundances ...
Status and ecology of Sotalia fluviatilis in the Cayos Miskito Reserve, Nicaragua.
(1999)
In March through May of 1996--98 we conducted research in the Cayos Miskito Reserve, Nicaragua to assess the status, ecology and distribution of Sotalia fluviatilis, a dolphin known from southern Brazil to Honduras. Surveys ...
An analysis of the activation of the adipogenic differentiation pathway in the bone marrow stroma by members of the nuclear hormone receptor family.
(1997)
The bone marrow stroma is composed of a diverse array of cell types that have unique functions. Of the different types, the adipocyte is the most abundant. It is not clear what purpose adipocytes serve in the bone marrow. ...
A geography of extinction: Patterns in the contraction of geographic ranges.
(1998)
I examined the contraction of geographic ranges in 245 species. Remnant portions of the geographic range tended to persist in the periphery of the species' historical range. Larger patches of the geographic ranges persisted ...
The ecology of the exotic cladoceran zooplankton, Daphnia lumholtzi (Sars), in Lake Texoma, Oklahoma - Texas.
(1997)
In Chapter 1, I present the initial data on the distribution and abundance of Daphnia lumholtzi during the summer of 1993. Lake Texoma has variable and often strong horizontal gradients in temperature, conductivity, and ...
Comparative physiology and macroecology of thermal tolerance in ectothermic vertebrates with correlates of phylogeny and biogeography.
(1997)
An organism's distribution and geographic range result from physiological tolerances and its ability to adjust physiological processes to maximize survival, growth, and reproduction under a diversity of environmental factors ...
Iguanid mating systems: Ecological causes and sexual selection consequences.
(1997)
Ctenosaura similis females exhibited extremely overlapping home ranges near burrow sites; D. dorsalis females exhibited moderate levels of home range overlap beneath large shrubs offering cool temperatures. Males of both ...